What was The Little Boy?
Name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
Parsons' code name
Name of Parsons' plane
A type of torpedo
Answer
The Little Boy was the name given to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima by the United States on August 6, 1945. The bomb was designed by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was a uranium-235 gun-type fission bomb, and it exploded with an energy equivalent to 15 kilotons of TNT.
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